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No. 232,056. Patented Sept. 7, I880.

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. OORBIN NORTON, OF TUSGARORA, NEVADA.

1 SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 232,056, dated September 7, 1880.

Application filed July 10, 1880.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, OORBIN NORTON, of Tuscarora, county of Elko and State of Nevada, have invented an Improvement in Picks; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to certain improvements in picks; and my improvements consist in forming a head of malleable iron, cast with a socket for the pick-handle, and having a slot through which the pick itself is passed, the pick being secured in place by a key fitting into a central notch, as is more fully described in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view of my device. Fig. 2 is a section.

The head A is partly hollow, or has a socket,

' a, into which the handle is fitted, the handle (No model.)

pick itself. The head is thus properly secured to the handle and the pick to the head. The pick cannot get loose, as the wedge or key passes through its notch in such a manner that it is firmly held in place and cannot be jarred loose. The tendency of the key is to force the pick against the top of the head, and being in the notch the pick cannot get away.

The pick is especially useful for miners purposes where the tools receive hard usage. No wedging of the handle is necessary to keep it in place, and neither pick, or handle is apt to get loose from the head.

Having thus described my invention, what 1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv The head A, provided with a socket for the handle, an opening, a, to receive thepick, and a transverse recess, 0, in combination with the pick B, provided with a recess, 1), and a key, 0, which enters recesses b and c, as set forth. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

GORBIN NORTON. Witnesses LAMBERT MOLINELLI, G. A. FLETCHER. 

